Settings

Main

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate enables you to write any changes made in the Text/Hexadecimal Editor.

Auto-refresh Drive Tree

If this box is selected, Restorer Ultimate automatically refreshes the list of connected disks. You may disable it if Restorer Ultimate experiences problems with connected devices.

Debug Mode

If this check box is selected, Restorer Ultimate displays an additional command Create FS Snapshoton the shortcut menu for an object with a file system. An FS Snapshot contains system data for the file system only (file descriptions without file contents). If a problem appears, this snapshot can be sent to Restorer Ultimate technical support to identify the problem. This option greatly slows Restorer Ultimate.

Notifications

Reset all hidden notifications

This button enables all previously disabled notification and warning messages.

User's file types

File name

Specifies a file name and path to the file where the descriptions of user's known file types are stored. You need to re-start Restorer Ultimate or click the Reload User's File Types button on the Known File Types tab for the new file to take effect.

User's RAID layout

File name

Specifies a file name and path to the file where the descriptions of user's RAID layouts are stored

Raw File Search

Bad Sectors

Specifies a default value for I/O Tries, or how many times Restorer Ultimate will try to read a bad sector.

Restorer Ultimate treats bad sectors in the following way:

It reads a certain part of disk (predefined by Windows) and

•If Default read attempts is set to 0, the entire part with bad sectors will be filled with the specified pattern.

•If Default read attempts is set to a non-zero value, Restorer Ultimate reads again that part sector by sector, repeating the attempts the specified number of times. If Restorer Ultimate still cannot read a bad sector, it fills the sectors with the specified pattern. In this case only the bad sectors will be filled with the pattern, but that extremely slows the disk read process.

For example, if you set Default read attempts to 1, a bad sector will be read 2 times.

Pattern to fill bad blocks

Specifies a pattern Restorer Ultimate will use to fill bad sectors in files to recover, in images, or when showing data in the Text/Hexadecimal Editor. You may specify the pattern either in the ANSI or Hex data format.

Note: Restorer Ultimate will never ever try to write anything on the disk from which data is to recover or an image is to create.

When the memory usage reaches the specified value, Restorer Ultimate stops showing the enumerated files and the There is not enough process memory... message appears. You may even ignore the message and try to see the entire disk file structure, or abort the file enumeration and see the file structure in parts. You may resume file enumeration by clicking the Open Next button on the toolbar.